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• 20 jan 2020

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  Crisis and infrastructures: responses to change between materiality and immateriality

  A dialogue between Anthropology, Geography and History

  The purpose of the conference is to explore the interactions between crised and infrastructures starting from a pivotal question: is it possibile to consider transitional processes as moments of "a transformazion that includes some essential elements of the previous phase?" (Pombeni 2013: 12) Or are they to be intended just as a dramatic interruptions and breaks? PhD Students, Post-Docs and Research Fellows of historical, geographical and anthropological training are invited to partecipate in the construction of a moment of dialogue and excange. The aim is to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion that will encompass all historiographical epochs, from antiquity to the present day, and question not only the role of infrastructure in the resolution of crises, but also the various implications of critical moments and of their conception.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Padua

  Call for papers - Language

  The essential of mediation

  Towards a consensus of the concept in the humanities and social sciences

  Le concept et le terme de « médiation » apparaissent dans diverses sciences humaines et sociales, notamment en droit, en philosophie, en psychologie, en sciences du langage, en sciences de la communication et en sciences de l’éducation. La pluralité des conceptualisations et la polysémie du terme que l’on repère souvent dans les discours spécialisés sont susceptibles d’entraver l’intercompréhension. Dans un tel scénario, il devient urgent de discerner l’essentiel de la médiation et d’en mettre en lumière les traits conceptuels et linguistiques significatifs, identifiés par des experts. Le colloque vise à vérifier la possibilité de partager une même unité conceptuelle et terminologique à travers le dialogue scientifique interdisciplinaire. Il veut également contribuer à renforcer la médiation en tant que domaine autonome du savoir, disposant d’une ontologie et d’une terminologie de référence.

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• 09 avr 2017

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  Children on the move from the 20th to the 21st century

  A biopolitics perspective

  Migrant children are often at the crossroads of conflicting priorities related to local and global issues (conflict, displacement, poverty, (under)development). Throughout history, states, organisations, institutions, and communities have tried to manage and control migrants and migratory processes. While the latter topic has been the subject of extensive research, the study of child migration lags behind. This workshop aims to address this gap by adopting Foucault’s theoretical framework of biopolitics – a control apparatus exerted over a population – to the case of children.

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• 20 déc 2016

  Padua

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Into the woods

  Overlapping perspectives on the history of “ancient forests”

  In ecological, economic and social terms, “ancient forests” play numerous roles. Their definition varies not only from country to country but also according to disciplinary fields. Studying “ancient forests” can involve separating “old-growth forests” from “ancient woodland”, forests that have disappeared and, in the case of “current forests”, those that are not actually very old at all! This conference aims to exchange views and ideas on “ancient forests” including both retrospective and prospective issues. Better understanding their past highlights the key issues of their status, protection and promotion in our current societies and opens up new perspectives about the future of « ancient forests ». Foresters, planners, developers, ecologists, biologists, agriculturalists, geographers, historians, philosophers, ethnologists, cartographers, archaeologists, archaeobotanists, sociologists etc., from all backgrounds, are invited to join this debate about our various and varying concepts of “ancient forests”.

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• 01 jui 2014

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  Peoples and borders. Seventy years of movement of persons in Europe, to Europe, from Europe (1945-2015)

  Movement of persons has been a key feature in the whole history of European integration, and the time has come for historians, along with political scientists, jurists, economists, sociologists and demographers, to discuss and draw some conclusions on its evolving conceptions and practical applications, placing both of them in the wider context of the social and demographic transformation of Europe and the political and economic narrative of continental integration.

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• 30 avr 2012

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  Mediterranean wetlands, past and present

  Le groupe d'Histoire des zones humides et l'Université de Padoue organise à Padoue le quatrième colloque international du groupe. Le colloque qui se veut pluridisciplinaire, sera organisé autour des thématiques suivantes : 1. vivre avec ou dans des zones humides méditerranéennes hier et aujourd’hui. 2. Sauvegarde de l’environnement et fluctuations spatiales et paysagères en zones humides. 3. Les enjeux actuels de la gestion et du développement des zones humides méditerranéennes. 4. Zones humides et santé en contexte méditerranéen.

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